Hemi-Sync® Journal 2001-2 (Spring)

a red barn. A thought flashed into his mind, “Who was the favorite in this patient’s family while growing up?” He consciously speculated that it might have been her brother because of the rural environment. When asked, “How was your experience?” G.V. promptly responded, “Okay, but my eyes wanted to move; they wanted to open.” To the question, “Who was the favorite child in your family?” she replied that her older sister was her mother’s favorite after they had left the farm. She “loved the farm” and had lived there until age five. It transpired that her mother had raised chickens, and the patient became the father’s favorite after the family relocated. This led to a very constructive conversation regarding G.V.’s relationship to her mother and its association to the current scenario at work. Afterward, the client was able to develop compassion for her coworkers and felt further along on her spiritual path. Case #4 - C.J. This forty-year-old male, with obsessive-compulsive traits and chronic mild depression, works in the medical field. Another therapist referred him for Hemi-Sync-enhanced psychotherapy. In the patient’s third session, while utilizing the Gateway Experience, Discovery, Advanced Focus 10, the therapist flashed on images of Bryce Canyon, which he had visited many years before. Back in C1, the patient was asked, “Have you ever been to Bryce Canyon?” C.J. answered, “No,” with a smile and said, “I was just talking to one of my patients about Bryce Canyon. . . . I’m going there when I retire” (an event far in the future). The therapist commented, “When you’re able to relax?” with the tacit meaning, “What are you waiting for?” The client replied, “Yes,” with an overtone of “aha!” From that point on he has become happier, improvements are continuing within his marriage and family, and he no longer brings up the past—he just wants to experience more Hemi-Sync. The therapist hadn’t thought of Bryce Canyon in years! Do we therapists actually get inside our patients’ heads or is this just an interesting metaphor? The answer to that question depends on the theoretical model employed to filter the information. Ken Wilber and other philosophers contend that consciousness is an evolving process. If consciousness evolves, then therapeutic techniques must keep pace in order to serve clients’ needs. By combining natural talent and learning with practice, we can develop the skill of intuiting or knowing information about our patients that is not ordinarily available and utilize it in their therapeutic care. The source of such presentiments may be controversial, but their value has proven to be pivotal in many cases. As long as we heed the warnings to avoid taking our intuitions literally and to validate our metaphors, the insights obtained through this process are a beneficial part of treatment. And, as stated in the introduction to this article, additional tools are necessary for clients with spiritual issues. According to Wilber, spiritual transformation requires a consistent spiritual practice. That viewpoint might be taken as a mandate to “do this and take the experience that comes.” Hemi-Sync embedded in enhanced intuitive psychotherapy provides experiences of deeper layers of the Self and builds a bridge between the levels of awareness through interpretation of those experiences. Although the need for front-loading prevents validating enhanced intuitive psychotherapy by the same criteria as remote viewing, these case reports show that it has substantial worth. The process can be employed across a wide variety of subjective and consensual models of therapy. It is a mental/psychic skill that can be learned and strengthened with practice and experience-from symbols to images, through intuitions, and finally to knowing. Deeper insights into the Self, sometimes obtainable only through intuitive mental processing, can assist clients to move past internal blocks, as well as open new paths for growth. Most patients find that this client-centered approach fulfills their needs and provides a much-needed connection to spiritual essence. Bibliography Arrien, Angeles. Signs of Life: The Five Universal Shapes and How to Use Them. 1992. De Backer, Dominque A. “Synchrotherapy and Hemi-Sync.” Hemi-Sync Journal, vol. 16, no. 2 (spring 1998). Gilligan, Stephen G. Therapeutic Trances: The Cooperative Principle in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy. 1987. Leuner, Hanscarl. “Guided Affective Imagery (GAI): A method of intensive psychotherapy.” American Journal of Psychotherapy, vol. 23, no. 1 (Jan. 1969): 4-22. McMoneagle, Joseph. Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space through Remote Viewing. 1997. Wilber, Ken. A Brief History of Everything. 1996. Wilmer, Harry A. “What do you say when a patient tells you a dream.” Texas Medicine, vol. 78 (Apr. 1982): 46-48. The Spectrum of Consciousness This is Ken Wilbur’s theory of the evolution of human awareness, based on the classic Perennial Philosophy. Its central premise is that consciousness evolves in a holoarchy, with higher/deeper levels transcending and including lower/superficial levels. Wilber defined these levels as progressing from Preconventional to Conventional, to Postconventional, and ultimately to Transconventional. My clinical model, also based on The Spectrum of Consciousness, is a holoarchy proceeding from Narcisstic to Moral, to Ethical, and to Spiritual. Reality is constructed through the lens of self in Narcissism, right and wrong in Morality, what is best in Ethics, and soul in Spirituality. Hemi-Sync® is a registered trademark of Interstate Industries, Inc. © 2001 by The Monroe Institute